Key facts
- Pronunciation
- [ kuːmaːʊ̃ːniː ]
- Native to
- Uttarakhand
- Region
- Kumaon ( India ) Doti ( Nepal )
- Ethnicity
- Kumaoni
- Native speakers
- 2.0 million (2011 census)
- Language family
- Indo-European Indo-Iranian Indo-Aryan Northern Central Pahari Kumaoni
- Early form
- Khasa Prakrit
- Writing system
- Devanagari (Kumaoni alphabet)
- Iso 639 3
- kfy
- Glottolog
- kuma1273
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Encyclopedic overview
Surendra Singh Pangtey narrating the origin story of Shauka people in Johari, a dialect of Kumaoni
Kumaoni (Kumaoni-Devanagari: कुमाऊँनी, pronounced [kuːmaːʊ̃ːniː]) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by over two million people of the Kumaon region of the state of Uttarakhand in Northern India, and the distant northwestern Sudurpashchim Province of Nepal. As per 1961 survey there were 1,030,254 Kumaoni speakers in India. The number of speakers increased to 2.0 million in 2011.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kumaoni” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.